Restoration Shaman Netherlight Crucible Recommendations

This section of the Restoration Shaman Guide explains the best relic trait choices for the Netherlight Crucible, a new system of artifact weapon progression added in Patch 7.3 Legion.

Netherlight Crucible

The Netherlight Crucible is a new system added in Patch 7.3. The Crucible allows you further empower your Artifact Weapon, by specializing and increasing the power from your relics. With it, each relic receives a small talent tree that you can select new traits from, depending how many traits your weapon have. Do not worry, however, because with the changes to Artifact Knowledge, unlocking the full power of the Crucible won't take long. Learn everything about this new system in our Netherlight Crucible Guide.

The first tier of unlocks happens as you unlock the crucible giving you +5 item level per relic. (total of 15 item levels).

Tier 2 Traits - Void/Light

The Second tier of unlocks happens at 60,63,66.

The traits unlock randomly but below is a rough priority for which traits to chose if given the choice between them. It is worth noting that as a healer the game will force at least one of your "Shadow" or "Holy" Traits to be a throughput increase, the other however can be a damage trait. The following is a relative ranking of the traits. With the opening of Antorus, der Brennende Thron, it is now possible to obtain Insigne der Großen Armee, which increases the potency of your Tier 2 Crucible traits by 50%. It might be a really strong legendary if you are lucky with Netherlight Crucible rolls!

Lichtinfusion - Similar to above but provides healing instead of a shield

Umarmung des Lichts - Hard to utilize as a healer and often not powerful enough to make an actual difference in the heavy damage of progression raiding.

VoidMost of the Void traits are damage traits as such only two are actual throughput increases. Below you will find those two and the rest should be considered to be roughly a zero HPS gain. (Some have minor heal effects when you deal damage which will proc off of our damaging spells.) but they will not be impactful enough to notice.

Meister der Schatten - Strong stat increase and personal survivability with the bonus avoidance. Resto Shamans are often plagued by its lack of personals, so additional damage reduction is very helpful

Finstere Sorgen - Small aoe damage burst that would require a heavy number of targets to yield a noticable effect

Tier 3 Traits

For the final tier, there are three options of traits present on relics normally. Those options are random, but can't be the same trait given by the relic. They aren't limited to traits that give throughput, and can be utility traits.